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by knodi123 4y ago
Exact same story. I was having way too easy a time in my comp sci class in high school, so I wrote a program that simulated our login screen, saved whatever you typed into the box to a text file in my home dir, gave the "bad username
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by knodi123 4y ago
lol, fair enough, but I would never commit a line of code I hadn't carefully read myself. my new class was basic, so the new unit test was basic as well, but it was thorough and correct. And I exaggerated a bit; I did write 3 or 4 co
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by knodi123 4y ago
https://i2.wp.com/circalingua.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11...
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by knodi123 4y ago
> nobody is really replacing somebody with a program that confidently get half it's answers wrong I gotta tell you, I use copilot to help with my coding, and it still sends a shiver down my spine when it writes the entire database
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by knodi123 4y ago
depends on how it's grown. If it's a black box that keeps improving but not by any means the developer understands, then maybe so. If we manage to decode the concepts of motivation as pertains to this hypothetical AGI, and are
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by knodi123 4y ago
Ah, but what if you call it locally-harvested organic free-range electricity? Might be worth a lot more, economically speaking.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> Why would it not be worth $8 million? mice ate some.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> "Airline pilots are the best at what they do and have spent years honing their craft." And apparently one of those rare and vital skills is filling in the gaps when talking to air traffic controllers who are not competent to
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by knodi123 4y ago
And because the last step is to freeze them, making them no longer appetizing.
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by knodi123 4y ago
Shoot, I know you're probably being silly, but I have to ask, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!?!?
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by knodi123 4y ago
Meanwhile, > EPA moves away from Permian Basin air pollution crackdown > The oil industry pushed hard against the proposal to issue an ozone nonattainment designation, which would have required that companies reduce oilfield emissions
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by knodi123 4y ago
> What I hate the most it's how the try to scam no savvy tech people, like grandparents and Oh, that's my utter bane. My mom knows better, I've taught her how the manipulations work, and then she'll show me a perti
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by knodi123 4y ago
lol, "Run the .py file with the highest number, because I can't figure out version control." Says the guy who posted it to github.
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by knodi123 4y ago
Wow, I'm not used to thinking of batteries in those terms. If you hit 3 months, you deserve to crack a bottle of champagne, that's a really impressive bit of engineering. Although now that I think about it, smoke detectors have
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by knodi123 4y ago
How much time can you get off a lipo pouch? If it's "on the wall", why isn't it powered by an ac adapter?
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by knodi123 4y ago
"Anyone can create a bridge that will hold up under a maximum load. It takes a real engineer to create a bridge that barely holds up under a maximum load."
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by knodi123 4y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-may-live-to-see-man-made-...
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by knodi123 4y ago
What are you going to find on mars to justify a colony? Best answer I've heard is "a portion of the raw materials you'd need to build a colony", which isn't even a circular justification - it's an incomplete
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by knodi123 4y ago
> And even if they could be bothered, the thawed would be a lab experiment, owned by whatever corporation pulled off the magic. Which is the plot of several sci-fi books. The most recent I'm aware of being the fun and light "W
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by knodi123 4y ago
The dead people don't freeze the money. They spend it on research. Once it's spent, it's in circulation, going around helping the lives of the living.
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by knodi123 4y ago
lol, this sounds like a dark version of the Turing Test. Can a machine lie so effectively that a human cannot distinguish between actual deceit and simulated deceit?
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by knodi123 4y ago
> stop letting developers trust numbers as being self-bound Sorry, I thought I was following you, but I don't understand the last half of this quote. What does "trust as self-bound" mean?
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by knodi123 4y ago
ids being sortable has a lot of advantages over random guids.
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by knodi123 4y ago
I'm surprised too. I've looked into this before, and it's absolutely right - just not intuitive to me. We do have radio-photo-voltaic devices, but they're so inefficient it's laughable. And we have RTG generators,
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by knodi123 4y ago
Yeah, there's a ceremony where the manager puts a piece of paper with their username in a goblet and drops in a match, and then the non-managers all collectively intone "gone. gone. gone." and turn their backs. It's ki
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by knodi123 4y ago
> Struct already accepts keyword argument options (keyword_init), they could have just added a new one (immutable: true) The article explains the reason they didn't do that: Ruby maintainers decided that Struct could not be made to
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by knodi123 4y ago
or as I was taught "All of the fun stuff was outlawed by the survivors."
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by knodi123 4y ago
In 2022, is there any other reasons to use C besides "fast code" or "codebase already written in C"?
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by knodi123 4y ago
> I think that is not done because it's hard/unclear how to handle patches that are not the same size. Is that because of all the effort put into running the same algorithm in parallel on a ton of tiles and then piecing togethe
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by knodi123 4y ago
We did that for my house for a while. It wasn't too expensive, just a couple million a month (after initial one-time costs like buying equipment and building the physical plant on a couple of neighboring acres). But in the end, facto

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